Station-indicator and advertising device.



0. H. HOPKINS. STATION INDICATOR AND ADVERTISING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.19,1909.

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APPLICATION FILED APR. 19,1900.

Patented Apr. 26, 1910.

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UNITED STATES CHARLES H. HOPKINS,

PATIENT OFFICE.

OF MINOA, NEW YORK.

STATION-INDICATOR AND ADVERTISING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. HOPKINS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Minoa, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Station-Indicators andAdvertising Devices; and I do hereby declare the followin to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in stationindicators, advertising apparatus, etc., and comprises essentially aseries of cards upon which any matter desired to be displayed appearsand so arranged that the cards may be automat c ally released andallowed to fall by gravity to exposed position where the matter may beconveniently read.

The invention comprises various details of construction and combinationsand arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described andthen specifically defined in the appended claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective view of my improved sign and advertisingdisplay apparatus. Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view vertically throughthe apparatus. F i 3 is a detail view of the releasing slide. ig. 4 is adetail view of a series of cards showing recesses out of alinement withone another in the edges thereof. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing amodified form of the apparatus in which the cards are lowered from thebottom of a series within a casing, and Fig. 6 is a vertical sectiontaken through the apparatus.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, Adesignates a box or casing which may be of any size or shape anddesigned to be fastened at any suitable location. Mounted within thecasing are the wires B upon which a series of cards, designated byletter C, are mounted, said wires passing through registering aperturesin the cards. Each of the cards 1s provided with notches D formed in twoof the opposite edges thereof and the notches in the various cards arepositioned preferably at Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr,26, 1910.

Application filed April 19,

1909. Serial No. 490,889.

different locations so that these notches will not be in registrationwith one another when a series of cards are adjusted within the casingand in readiness to be displayed. Said wires 13 are preferably of theshape shown in the drawings and so arranged that, when a card isreleased, it will fall by gravity from its former position within thecasing and be suspended from the lower end of the wire in the mannershown in Fig. 1 of the drawings and thus displaying the advertisingmatter upon the face of the card.

A slide, designated by letter E, is mounted within the casing andprovided with lugs F projecting from two of the opposite edges thereofand said lugs upon the slide are of such size as to conveniently passthrough the notches formed in the opposite edges of the cards. Saidslide is mounted in suitable guideways formed within the casing and maybe actuated by any suitable lever mechanism either automatic or manuallywhereby, as the slide is reciprocated, the toothed lugs which are spacedapart a distance equal to any two of the notches upon the cards willregister with the notches in the outermost card of the series, thusallowing the card to fall by gravity from the casing to its lowestposition where it hangs upon the lower arms of the wires.

In Fig. 5 of the drawings, I show a slight modification of my inventionin which the cards are adapted to drop from the bottom of the casingrather than the side and in which modified form the slide K is mountedin the bottom of the casing and provided with the usual lugs and adaptedto support the superimposed pile of cards. In order to cause the cardsto readily fall from the casing when they come singly with their notchesin registration with the lugs of the slide, a weight or spring may beapplied to the top of the ile in order to cause the same to more rea ilyfall from the casing. In the modified form, the slide may be eithermanually or automatically operated as may be desired without in any waydeparting from the s irit of my invention.

What I claim to lie new is A card display apparatus comprising a casing,open upon one face, the end walls of the casing adjacent to the openface bein provided with registering apertures, a r0 bent upon itself toform two parallel arms and adapted to have longitudinal movementsthrough said registering apertures, lugs projeoting from the arms ofsaid rod toward each other, spaced apart and positioned in parallelplanes, card retaining wires having their inner ends fastened within thecasing and extending through said open face and curved'downwardly, aseries of cards having apertures to receive said wires and havingnotches in their opposite edges Which are out of registration alongcorresponding edges of the cards, a lever pivoted at one end to the wallof said casing and having a slot therein, a threaded pin fixed to saidrod at the portion thereof where it is bent to form two arms, said pinpassing through the slot in said lever and a thumb screw fitted to the15 end of said threaded pin, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

CHARLES H. HOPKINS. WVitnesses:

ELDRIDGE M. LYON, l EDWARD P. LAURIE.

